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Spot Reducing...This Should Be Interesting...
NikkiiBaby68
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They say you cant do this...I say you can. I did it. I am just wondering what everyone else says about this...Now that I am back to exercising after stupid MOFO Lyme Im gonna wrap areas of my body that give me difficulty and start doing it again.
My arms are terrible. Before lyme I lost so close to my goal but arms were still big. Seemed no matter what I did weights even kettlebell didnt do any good. Then I read an article about arm fat and why its so hard to get rid of it. I understood then why they made that shake weight but then decided to then just use my kettle bell for it...I still wasnt getting the results i wanted...So I added wrapping to the mix but it was such a mess...So I got those things the basket ball players wear. Oiled up my arm with coconut oil to help condition the skin and pulled the arm sleeve on. I shook my kettle bell like no tomorrow and did arm rolls kind of in speed bag fashion. Just as before...the difference was night and day. I lost twice as much fat sometimes more on a good day Than before it was wrapped.
Did same thing with my abdomen...went to a thrift store got a small pair of stretch pants cut off the legs and oiled up my abdomen...shimmied into it. lol
I am a belly dancer. When I danced not doing this I didnt lose as many inches. When I pay special attention to my belly and shimmy like hell shaking anything and anything that is wrapped I do seem to lose more inches.
I dont go through a whole thing though like others...lol I make things easy. I like easy.
Whats your view point on this.
My arms are terrible. Before lyme I lost so close to my goal but arms were still big. Seemed no matter what I did weights even kettlebell didnt do any good. Then I read an article about arm fat and why its so hard to get rid of it. I understood then why they made that shake weight but then decided to then just use my kettle bell for it...I still wasnt getting the results i wanted...So I added wrapping to the mix but it was such a mess...So I got those things the basket ball players wear. Oiled up my arm with coconut oil to help condition the skin and pulled the arm sleeve on. I shook my kettle bell like no tomorrow and did arm rolls kind of in speed bag fashion. Just as before...the difference was night and day. I lost twice as much fat sometimes more on a good day Than before it was wrapped.
Did same thing with my abdomen...went to a thrift store got a small pair of stretch pants cut off the legs and oiled up my abdomen...shimmied into it. lol
I am a belly dancer. When I danced not doing this I didnt lose as many inches. When I pay special attention to my belly and shimmy like hell shaking anything and anything that is wrapped I do seem to lose more inches.
I dont go through a whole thing though like others...lol I make things easy. I like easy.
Whats your view point on this.
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You're not losing fat like that. Binding is temporary water loss.23
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I believe your spot reduction will be temporary.14
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lol5
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So...how are you measuring this 'fat loss'? Are you just going by how you look? Because wrapping yourself will provide temporary results. Your "I lost twice as much fat sometimes more on a good day Than before it was wrapped" comment leads me to believe you think you can see substantial fat loss in the span of a day, which isn't possible.
But if you think you really achieved spot reduction, can you tell me by what mechanism oiling and wrapping your body increases fat loss in those specific areas?14 -
If you lost fat you'd also lose scale weight and not just for a day or two when water is reduced that is giving the appearance of smaller, firmer areas.
You are not a physiological anomaly and if you are, they should be studying you.
Now, you can target muscle building, which in turn can make areas smaller if fat is also lost from the are because muscle is denser and thus takes up less physical space pound for pound than fat.6 -
You spot reduced water, not fat.22
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NikkiiBaby68 wrote: »They say you cant do this...I say you can. I did it. I am just wondering what everyone else says about this...Now that I am back to exercising after stupid MOFO Lyme Im gonna wrap areas of my body that give me difficulty and start doing it again.
My arms are terrible. Before lyme I lost so close to my goal but arms were still big. Seemed no matter what I did weights even kettlebell didnt do any good. Then I read an article about arm fat and why its so hard to get rid of it. I understood then why they made that shake weight but then decided to then just use my kettle bell for it...I still wasnt getting the results i wanted...So I added wrapping to the mix but it was such a mess...So I got those things the basket ball players wear. Oiled up my arm with coconut oil to help condition the skin and pulled the arm sleeve on. I shook my kettle bell like no tomorrow and did arm rolls kind of in speed bag fashion. Just as before...the difference was night and day. I lost twice as much fat sometimes more on a good day Than before it was wrapped.
Did same thing with my abdomen...went to a thrift store got a small pair of stretch pants cut off the legs and oiled up my abdomen...shimmied into it. lol
I am a belly dancer. When I danced not doing this I didnt lose as many inches. When I pay special attention to my belly and shimmy like hell shaking anything and anything that is wrapped I do seem to lose more inches.
I dont go through a whole thing though like others...lol I make things easy. I like easy.
Whats your view point on this.
Bolded part - this means this was the next place your body was ready to lose weight. You simply had finally lost enough weight. Arms and belly are often the last to go for women.0 -
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The little test I did was a per week basis...on weeks i focused on these areas like this I lost about twice as much as the weeks I didnt and this was consistent. I did this over a span of about three months. Was just curious what everyone else thought and knew the kind of answers I was going to get.2
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Enjoy your water loss.
There's not even anything here to debate. Spot reduction is not possible. Period.19 -
Again, making areas sweat is not targeting fat reduction. Human biology. You don't defy it.13
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You can also reduce the look of cellulite by slathering on prep H and wrapping your legs in saran wrap. Just like the above though, it will come back. Temporary fixes are great for temporary things like formals but it ain't a shortcut for hard work.2
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NikkiiBaby68 wrote: »The little test I did was a per week basis...on weeks i focused on these areas like this I lost about twice as much as the weeks I didnt and this was consistent. I did this over a span of about three months. Was just curious what everyone else thought and knew the kind of answers I was going to get.
I know it's exciting to see tape measure loss in areas we dislike, but it is only water. With the bolded part, I'm not sure if you were looking for validation or if you intended on listening to the replies at all. We all wish that spot reduction was possible.
There is a study where people worked out one body part and it proved that temporary spot reduction happens. It didn't last though. You may have managed to tighten the skin and lost water, which is great, but it's not reducing the fat there permanently.5 -
NikkiiBaby68 wrote: »The little test I did was a per week basis...on weeks i focused on these areas like this I lost about twice as much as the weeks I didnt and this was consistent. I did this over a span of about three months. Was just curious what everyone else thought and knew the kind of answers I was going to get.
you do you. If it works then great.
Best of luck. Dont let others bring you down.2 -
NikkiiBaby68 wrote: »The little test I did was a per week basis...on weeks i focused on these areas like this I lost about twice as much as the weeks I didnt and this was consistent. I did this over a span of about three months. Was just curious what everyone else thought and knew the kind of answers I was going to get.
you do you. If it works then great.
Best of luck. Dont let others bring you down.0 -
SpotLighttt wrote: »NikkiiBaby68 wrote: »The little test I did was a per week basis...on weeks i focused on these areas like this I lost about twice as much as the weeks I didnt and this was consistent. I did this over a span of about three months. Was just curious what everyone else thought and knew the kind of answers I was going to get.
you do you. If it works then great.
Best of luck. Dont let others bring you down.
Well, they posted this in the debate section, where people are going to refute misinformation even more fervently than in the main forums.
Support doesn't mean agreeing. If you had a friend who wanted to start doing something unnecessarily dangerous I would sincerely hope you'd tell them not be such a douche.18 -
There was some study that had people do (I think it was) leg presses at extremely high reps with low weight and they lost something like .007" from their legs. (@ninerbluff has mentioned it in the past.) That's it for spot reduction of fat, outside of liposuction and cryo-whatever.2
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VintageFeline wrote: »SpotLighttt wrote: »NikkiiBaby68 wrote: »The little test I did was a per week basis...on weeks i focused on these areas like this I lost about twice as much as the weeks I didnt and this was consistent. I did this over a span of about three months. Was just curious what everyone else thought and knew the kind of answers I was going to get.
you do you. If it works then great.
Best of luck. Dont let others bring you down.
Well, they posted this in the debate section, where people are going to refute misinformation even more fervently than in the main forums.
Support doesn't mean agreeing. If you had a friend who wanted to start doing something unnecessarily dangerous I would sincerely hope you'd tell them not be such a douche.
oh yes yes of course.0 -
VintageFeline wrote: »SpotLighttt wrote: »NikkiiBaby68 wrote: »The little test I did was a per week basis...on weeks i focused on these areas like this I lost about twice as much as the weeks I didnt and this was consistent. I did this over a span of about three months. Was just curious what everyone else thought and knew the kind of answers I was going to get.
you do you. If it works then great.
Best of luck. Dont let others bring you down.
Well, they posted this in the debate section, where people are going to refute misinformation even more fervently than in the main forums.
Support doesn't mean agreeing. If you had a friend who wanted to start doing something unnecessarily dangerous I would sincerely hope you'd tell them not be such a douche.
oh yes yes of course.0 -
NikkiiBaby68 wrote: »The little test I did was a per week basis...on weeks i focused on these areas like this I lost about twice as much as the weeks I didnt and this was consistent. I did this over a span of about three months. Was just curious what everyone else thought and knew the kind of answers I was going to get.
Everyone else seems to agree with current science. Do you have any studies that back up your claim that spot reduction of fat is possible the way you describe?2 -
I wish it was that easy!
This article seems to sum up spot reduction:
http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/spot-reduction/4 -
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if calories remained consistent I want to know how fat was removed...5
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I'm getting a similar effect on my stomach right now which is making me look ridiculous. I wear compression pants or shorts with a wide elastic band right below my belly button when I workout 6 days a week for at least an hour. So, the effect is that I have big puffy stomach above the bellybutton and a tighter smaller stomach below the bellybutton. When I was heavier and wearing my bras too tight I was an inch or two smaller all around my bra line. Same thing. I doubt it is fat loss, but an explanation of what causes this would be interesting.
According to my tape measure and the mirror I am losing more in my hips and thighs than my waist and bust which I find odd since I've always been an extreme pear. I have been lifting heavy and walking or running here in the mountains for 6 months. And there's those compression pants again. I doubt I'll ever really know why this is happening.0 -
I'm going with science on this one...5
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lmfao0
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Doesn't work but if believing it gives you the motivation to keep battling forward then I'm all for it.
But, I'm science through and through (occupational hazard) and how the body uses it's stores of body fat removes any possibility of spot reduction.3 -
If spot reduction worked... everyone would be wearing waist trainers. Goodness knows I'd be rocking that if it did! I have had many Facebook friends selling the It Works! wraps, but were still overweight. Everyone wants the magic trick, but it doesn't work. If it did - there would be much fewer fat people. Be careful what you insist works, It's a miracle! Someone who's never heard any of this before and has no idea what they're doing could be completely derailed and give up when the inevitable happens.
And as many legs/butt/back workouts I do - They should be chiseled statues of perfection by now. Not a work in progress, still.
Edit: holy heck batman and typos.. my bad. Still getting used to my mac's tiny keyboard
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